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The Weaponization of Expertise
- How Elites Fuel Populism
Engelsk Hardback
The Weaponization of Expertise
- How Elites Fuel Populism
Engelsk Hardback

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The problem with expertise—and the dark side of the equation “knowledge = power.”

Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their case, revealing how the hubris of all-too-human experts undermined—perhaps irreparably—public faith in elite policymaking. Paradoxically, by turning science into dogmatism, the overweening elite response has also proved deeply corrosive to expertise itself—in effect, doing exactly what elite policymakers accuse their critics of doing.

A much-needed corrective to a dangerous blind faith in expertise, The Weaponization of Expertise identifies a cluster of pathologies that have enveloped many institutions meant to help referee expert knowledge, in particular a disavowal of the doubt, uncertainty, and counterarguments that are crucial to the accumulation of knowledge. At a time when trust in expertise and faith in institutions are most needed and most lacking, this work issues a stark reminder that a crisis of misinformation may well begin at the top.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780262049597
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0262049597
Udg. Dato:
4 mar 2025
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
MIT Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
4 mar 2025
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